揻

揻 U+63FB, 揻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63FB ← 揺 [U+63FA] CJK Unified Ideographs 揼 → [U+63FC]

Translingual

Han character

揻 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手戈竹女 (QIHV), composition ⿰扌威)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 445, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1913, character 11
• Unihan data for U+63FB

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Chinese

trad.		揻
simp. #		揻

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 威 (OC *qul).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wēi (wei¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ui

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wei
    • Wade–Giles: wei¹
    • Yale: wēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uei
    • Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wai¹
    • Yale: wāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ui
    • Tâi-lô: ui
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ui³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ui⁴⁴/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 揻

1. (dialectal Mandarin) to bend a small and long object
2. (Hokkien) to prick; to poke

   心肝像針揻。 [Hokkien, trad.]
   心肝像针揻。 [Hokkien, simp.]

   Sim-koaⁿ chhiūⁿ chiam ui. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   My heart is aching as if it is pricked by a needle.

Synonyms

• (to prick):
  • (Mandarin) 刺 (cì), 戳 (chuō)
  • (Cantonese) 篤／笃 (duk1), 㓤 (gat1)